| January 19, 2008 |
Round Table |
We are privileged to have so many expert breeders as
members of our club. We arranged a
roundtable comprised of someone knowledgable in each of these areas: mop
spawners, peat spawners, fry care and feeding, and live foods. We had
26 people attending, including Craig Rees and John Aldrich from the
Minnesota Killie Keepers Club. The auction was one of the largest
ones ever. Despite bitterly cold and blustery weather, 25 intrepid
souls from the Illinois-Indiana line to the Quad Cities to the Twin Cities
showed up for a breeders’ round-table. Just to show that the breeding
killies talked about were no flukes, ten styros with assorted critters and
plants came along for the ride. If styros could sneer, they laughed in the
face of adversity.
The auction included: Aplocheilus lineatus red,
Aphyosemion australe gold lyretail 3 pairs, A.
australe gold lyretail youngsters, A. australe BSWG, A. australe
chocolate, A. kekemense, A. louessense Malinga, A. (Chrom.) poliacki Mile
29, A.(Chrom.) splendopleure Tiko green 2 bags, A. striatum Lambaréné,
Austrolebias nigripinnis Villa Soriano, Epiplatys dageti monroviae,
Fundulopanchax gardneri gold, German import, Fp. gardneri gold (yellow and
red strips in unpaired fins) German import, Fp.gardneri Makurdi, Fp. puerzli
Yebeni trio, Fp. sjoestedti, Fp. walkeri orange, Nothobranchius kafuensis
Kayuni State Farm, Scriptaphyosemion cauveti Bar. Loire GRCH 93/239, A very
useful Hydrosponge filter for an 10 or 20-gallon aquarium, 5 sets of four
petri dishes (suitable for drying out eggs and covering jars), Broadleaf
water sprite, perhaps Ceratopteris cornuta, Java moss 3 bags, Najas
guadalupensis (Southern Naiad) 2 bags, Oriental water fern, perhaps
Ceratopteris thalictroides 3 bags, Riccia fluitans or crystalwort – all
without a single duckweed 3 bags, Salvinia natans
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| May 17, 2008 |
Robert Steinbach |
Robert Steinbach has just returned from
a 3000 mile collecting trip from Illinois to Texas, along the coast to
Florida, back to Texas and back to Illinois. He will do a presentation with maps,
pitcher plants etc and the fish found with several kinds of plants.
We will also have a critique session on the
2008 Show. Please have your good and bad points in mind so we can
build on this and have an even better show in 2009.
May 17th ChiKA
Meeting (3rd Saturday)2:00 P.M. in Room K131 at College of DuPage. |